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Playground Sounds, Delicate Daffodil and Birthday Skype

1 Walking into town about lunchtime today, I was delighted to hear the sounds of the nearby primary school children at play – such happy squeals and shrieks and laughter, sounds that we have heard all our working lives and since, in our travels around the world. All children at play, wherever they are, make the same happy sounds and we heard it in Mapoch, South Africa where we went to build a classroom the year after we retired.

Children on the climbing frame in Mapoch

2 I love the yellowness of this time of year but I also find the delicacy of this pale daffodil very beautiful. The specialness of this daffodil is for two very good friends who have each lost a parent in the last couple of weeks. This is just to tell them they are loved.

Pale daffodil

3 We Skyped with T for her 2nd birthday today as she opened her presents. How lucky we are with current technology that allows us to share such events from hundreds of miles away.

For those who would like the Nutella Cookies recipe, I’ve put it on my Recipe pages today. Enjoy!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 12, 2013 in charity, Children, community, family, flowers, garden, Grandchildren, Mapoch, nature, photography, Postaday2013, travel, Uncategorized, Voluntouring

Tags: bereavement, happy children, love, Mapoch, Nutella Cookies, photography, playground, Postaday, postaday 2013, South Africa, volunteering, Voluntouring

Mothers’ Day, Nutella Cookies and The Dragon Award

10 Mar

1 It’s Mothers’ Day here in the UK and I have been cheered, as always, by the love and the warmth from my lovely ‘kids’!

I’ve also spent some time, of course, thinking about my own lovely Mum who died 20 years ago this year which is very hard to believe. She is always here with me in so many ways. Mum always insisted that she stood 5′ and half an inch tall but in fact she was 4′ 11and a 1/2″! We sometimes called her MiniMum and there are many occasions when I find MiniMum on my shoulder whispering her wisdoms in my ear. She was so warm and she was one, who in the words of Thomas Hardy, ‘used to notice’ the beautiful things. She would have loved my blog…..

Purple, white and green card, chosen with care and a nod to our history

Lovely colourful silk scarf

Gorgeous flower basket

2 While here for her birthday, our eldest gave me a recipe for the easiest cookies in the world and they taste good too! I’ve just made a batch of Nutella Cookies and will add them to the cakes I’ve made for Thursday’s Singing Workshop cake-break.

M’s Nutella Cookies

3 I’ve been given The Dragon Award by Marilyn and I’m utterly delighted by that! Thank you so much. In the ensuing conversation, Marilyn said the following about my blog which pleases me greatly – “I love your blog. It’s beautiful. Elegant. It’s a friendly place, like visiting a good neighbour who doesn’t lock her kitchen door and always has a pot of coffee on the stove.”